Disaster Prevention / Mitigation
Disaster Preparedness
Disaster Response
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Prevention / Mitigation
- Climate change adaptation including climate smart agriculture
- Urban resilience and climate change design and development
- Property law and environmental law (including climate change)
- Digital communication tool design to improve the planning, implementation, recovery and debriefing processes of prescribed burning
- Reducing the risk of bushfire initiated from power lines
- First Nations peoples cultural burning project
- Collaborating stewardship of urban natural resources for social-ecological well-being
- Social-ecological resilience thinking, environmental management and conservation, community-based land use and management
Disaster Preparedness
- Infrastructure including enhancing resilience, and energy planning
- Community-based emergency management, government-citizen coproduction in disaster management
- Transport modelling, management and connectivity during disasters
- Modelling evacuations in the face of bushfires, simulation of human behaviors
- Socio-psychological and engineering studies on human behavior during emergencies
- Language mediation in disaster prevention and recovery
- Financial resilience
- Fire retardant apparel (including performance) for fire fighters, military, police and mining industry.
- Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Network, and Data Analytics
- School-based bushfire education
- Building resilience through use of social media during disasters
Disaster Response
- Safety systems for new generation vehicle technologies, radar systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for environmental surveillance and fire detection
- Disaster response communication systems using satellite and UAV, wireless sensor networks and IoT, Satellite systems and radars
- Human security - a framework for understanding civil-military relation during disasters
- Ecosystem health monitoring and assessment
- Biodiversity conservation, water quality and statistical analysis.
- Water and sanitation service provision technology
- Expertise in soil carbon and peat soil fire prevention and restoration
- Land impact assessment and risk assessment
- Financial analysis of the housing sector and economic impacts of disasters
- Health psychology and resilience
- Post-disaster housing and settlement reconstruction program design
- Journalists and trauma, support and counselling for journalists reporting on disasters.
- Gender and bushfire - gendered inequalities and differences in (esp) preparedness, response and recovery behavior after bushfire
Disaster Recovery
- Ecosystem health monitoring and assessment
- Biodiversity conservation, water quality and water and sanitation service provision technology
- Adaptive environmental management
- Expertise in soil carbon and peat soil fire prevention and restoration
- Land contaminations - land impact assessment and risk assessment
- Impact of bushfires on toxicity to organisms and humans
- Behavioral issues, educational, cultural and accountability aspects
- Financial analysis of the housing sector (including cultural) economies and government policy
- Resilience and mental health, supporting individuals and families in crisis
- Economic impacts of disasters, especially indirect and intangible impacts
- Post-disaster housing and settlement reconstruction program design
- Building resilience for disaster mitigation and through planned recovery programs
